Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St.
An evocative hi.
The prize-winning historian Michael O\'Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams\'s extraordinary passage.
She traveled through the snows of Eastern Europe, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon\'s return from Elba.
Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult Journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris.
Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St